How children are missing out on family care because councils fail to consider overseas placements
Community Care
JULY 12, 2024
By Sorcha Morgan, head of service, CFAB Recently, I closed Baby Leo’s case. His mother had been unable to care for him due to her substance misuse and consideration was given to him being cared for by his maternal grandmother in Italy, who had been identified as a potential carer earlier in proceedings. The local authority had initially sought an assessment through the Central Authority for the Hague Convention 1996 (see box) but the standard of reporting and analysis was too brief and so the lo
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